Music Gallery

Toronto (February 12-14, 1999)

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Musicworks Review by Josh Thorpe
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Adventurous listeners can soon explore new frontiers in sound presentation as Sound Travels touches down at Toronto's Music Gallery on February 12, 13 and 14. For three days, carefully orchestrated concerts of electroacoustic and radiophonic works by Canadian composers will set out to challenge and expand auditory expectations. The concerts will be complemented by interactive installations located at the Music Gallery, using sound, theatre and puppetry to engage audiences in pressing social issues.
Sound Travels will present concert works by Canadian electoacoustic composers Martin Bartlett (realized by Matt Rogalsky), Ned Bouhalassa, Darren Copeland (with Alex Bulmer), Yves Daoust, Ken Newby (with poet Robert Anthony), Chris Rolfe, Randall Smith, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp. There will also be a sampling of the newest composers to emerge on the Canadian scene.
Featured installations will include: Lynda Hill's Dark Forest (2-6 p.m.), a penetrating elegy to victims of violence and their loved ones drawing on sound spatialization and butoh performance; and the interactive mega-kiosk Bells & Whistles (7-8 p.m.) by Mark Brownell and Leslie Ashton, which blends recorded sound, puppetry, object-oriented programming, and agit-prop theatre into a peculiar ATM meets Punch and Judy fusion.
February 12, 13, 14, 1999
Music Gallery
179 Richmond Street West
Toronto
Concerts at 8 PM ($12/10)
Installations at 2-6 PM & 7-8 PM (by donation).
For media information:
The Coaston Group
(416) 766-2278 or (905) 690-3252
75014.1770@compuserve.com
For reservations and other info:
Music Gallery
(416) 204-1080
musicgal@interlog.com
Presented by New Adventures in Sound & the Music Gallery.
Supported by Harmonic Functions, Third Monk Software, Show Pro, Prolan, eye, Western Front New Music, Le Conservatoire de musique de Montréal, EuCuE, Music Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

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